Vari Capricci. No. 8. Death Giving Audience / Giovanni Batttista Tiepolo

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Accession Number: 1951/2.76
Title: Vari Capricci. No. 8. Death Giving Audience
Artist: Giovanni Batttista Tiepolo
Artist Nationality: Italian
Artist Life Dates: (Venice, 1696 - 1770, Madrid)
Medium and Support: etching on paper
Object Creation Date: 1743
Credit Line: Museum Purchase
Inscription: Signed on plate (at foot of pedestal, l.): Tiepolo
Dimensions: 14 cm x 17.5 cm (5 1/2 in. x 6 7/8 in.)
Century: 18th Century
Primary Keywords: allegory; death; dogs; seated; standing
Secondary Keywords: animals; audiences; figures; genres; how we live; mammals; people and occupations; rites of passage; the natural world
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 1351 x 963
File Size: 173 KB
Record: 1951/2.76
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1951-sl-2.76/1951_2.76.jpg

In public portfolios: Death and dying (500); Death personified (47); Heavens, hells, and afterlives (132); Monsters, demons, devils, and robots (128); The Divine Comedy (143)

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Full citation: "Vari Capricci. No. 8. Death Giving Audience; Giovanni Batttista Tiepolo." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1951-sl-2.76/1951_2.76.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 04, 2024.